What better way to end the season than with The Cosmos co-founders, Cassandra Lam and Karen Mok. They share a thing or twenty about shaping and growing a community rooted in intention, transparency and integrity.

S2E10: On the joys of motherhood, friendship and building a coliving platform - Relogo

Jan 5th, 2021 47m 48s

Co-founders of Relogo, a search platform for coliving spaces, talk about motherhood and why it's a superpower when building a business.

S2E9: On defining success and falling with grace - Rachel Kelly Davis and Danella Yaptinchay

Dec 23rd, 2020 51m 14s

Rachel and Danella comes to our show today to share what it took for them to make things work even when things aren't working.

S2E8: On empowering our well-being through voice - Kintsugi

Nov 24th, 2020 53m 46s

Kintsugi is a different kind of mental health platform that uses voice biomarkers to measure and predict our well-being. Grace and Rima, co-founders of Kintsugi, share with us why there is beauty in our cracks and imperfections.

S2E7: On going from zero to property hero - Ohmyhome

Nov 10th, 2020 43m 56s

Race Wong and Rhonda Wong are sisters and Ohmyhome's co-founders. They share how they turned their MVP that once offered a free service to what is now a full-service prop-tech business that's transacting thousands of homes that has a combined v

S2E6: On being friends first and growing a clean cosmetics brand - Liht Organics

Oct 27th, 2020 52m 12s

Liht Organics joins us on the podcast to talk about Asia's appetite for clean beauty, being friends first and why we shouldn't believe the myth that friends and business don't mix. Liht Organics founder Nerissa Low and her two chief best friend

S2E5: On building a business in the midst of a global pandemic - Pory

Oct 13th, 2020 42m 1s

Starting a business is hard enough as it is, try starting and growing one in the middle of the pandemic. Sam and Luannie of Pory.io share their story of building a side-hustle after their day jobs moved them into part-time roles.

S2E4: On vulnerability and integrity during challenging times - talenTtrust

Sep 29th, 2020 1h 6m

Tess Mackean, CEO of talenTtrust and Sunita Kaur, APAC VP of Twitch and board member of talentTrust, drops into our show to talk about vulnerability and maintaining integrity during challenging times. They also talk about volunteering and what

S2E3: On helping female founders gain access to capital - IFundWomen

Sep 15th, 2020 40m 37s

The co-founders of IFundWomen, focuses on women helping other women. They're on the podcast to talk about the lack of access to capital for female founders and how they've built just the thing to address that.

S2E2: On what it takes to build global brands - Supernova

Sep 1st, 2020 29m 3s

Supernova, the brand behind some of the best super brands—think Coco & Eve and Sand & Sky—joined me on the podcast to talk about investors and what it takes to build the new generation of beauty brands.

S2E1: On why it’s normal to have friendship strife - Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Aug 18th, 2020 36m 41s

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow are headlining this new season of Chief Best Friends, sharing with us what it takes to build, maintain, and navigate a changing friendship. This amazing duo is behind popular podcast Call Your Girlfriend and is out

What's new for Chief Best Friends this Season 2?

Aug 11th, 2020 1m 6s

Chief Best Friends is back with a new season! You will hear from ladies who gave us Shine Theory, who are fighting workplace discrimination, who are building a fundraising platform specifically for women by women, and so much more.

S1E9: On diversity and shifting the balance of power - SoGal Ventures

Sep 22nd, 2019 43m 50s

What do you see when I say venture capitalist? Most likely a guy, probably in his 30s or older. What if, I told you, that when Pocket and Elizabeth started SoGal Ventures, they were the complete opposite of that stereotype. In fact, it was so a

S1E8: On embracing heritage through fashion - East Meets Dress

Sep 8th, 2019 33m 18s

Jenn and Vivian run a bespoke fashion store called East Meets Dress. They create and develop cheongsam dresses in the hopes of bringing back traditional garb but made for the modern woman. What makes their story amazing is that they didn’t come

S1E7: On breaking the bamboo ceiling - Rock The Boat

Aug 12th, 2019 36m 9s

If you are looking for other Asian-hosted and Asian-produced podcasts, then you’d want to subscribe to Rock the Boat. We have today Lucia and Lynne, the power ladies behind this amazing show. You’ll get to hear why gathering communities is impo

S1E6: On finding your person wherever they may be - Heart of Home

Jul 28th, 2019 38m 9s

Heart of Home Workshop is run by Clare Barker and Yasmina Cowan. Heart of Home is all about at-home indoor photography. It’s a very specific niche, if you asked me, but I love the way they see the home as an extension of ourselves. The thing th

S1E5: On working with each other's quirks - Sam & Soph

Jul 14th, 2019 34m 37s

We have Sam Lo and Sophie Ong in our show today. I’m lucky enough to be friends with both of them and I couldn’t help but bring them onto Chief Best Friends because I think they embody the future of work. Kind of like a collective, where each i

S1E4: On changing gears - Red Shoe Stories

Jun 23rd, 2019 41m 50s

It was a great pleasure to speak to Naomi and Frances, sisters and co-founders of Red Shoe Stories, a publishing company that’s helping bring diversity in picture books for children. Their fascinating story have origins in both their personal a

S1E3: On not having failure as an option - WeBarre

Jun 9th, 2019 24m 23s

Super privileged to chat with two successful, smart and beautiful women Anabel Chew and Linda Tang, co-founders of WeBarre. Their studio brings together ballet technique, yoga, pilates and strength training in an invigorating workout to transfo

S1E2: On trusting each other - Sarah and Schooling

May 26th, 2019 41m 32s

Excited to bring this podcast closer to home with this episode. We speak with Sarah Tang and Alison Schooling of Sarah and Schooling. This was definitely one of our most fun interviews, with the energy and buzz of their friendship almost oozing

S1E1: On how to do more with less - ADAY

May 12th, 2019 42m 13s

It’s such an honour to kick off Chief Best Friends with ADAY’s co-founders Meg He and Nina Faulhaber. As a fan of their brand, it’s even more inspirational when we found out that ADAY was built on the idea of having fewer pieces you can do more

Trailer: Chief Best Friends

May 8th, 2019 36s

Chief Best Friends is a podcast about mixing friendship + business and all the messy in-betweens. We're on a mission to help women cultivate more meaningful friendships at work. We believe that if we want to go far, we have to do it together.